Getting rid of special characters. (^M)

[wolves]

I copied over a file from c:\ to unix box, but now I have some ' ^M ' at the end of my lines.

How can I get rid of these?

Thanks in advance

 

[PHV]

man dos2unix
or the sed way:
sed 's!.$!!' /path/to/dosfile >unixfile

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[vgersh99]

faq80-1911

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[wolves]

got it,thanks alot.

 

[nawlej]

Just wanted to add a little blurb about why this happens. In a windows text editor (and, from what I have noticed, the Gnome desktop text editor alike), a carriage return is defined by a \r.....in a Unix text editor, a \n defines this. What the dos2unix converter does, is reads in the dos like carriage returns and converts them to unix carriage returns. If need be, there are times when you transfer a unix text file to a DOS platform, and you can run the "unix2dos" converter also. Hope this helps.

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[morse]--... ...--[/morse], Eric.

 

[PHV]

nawlej, in Dos/Windows end of line is CrLf, in Unix Lf.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[nawlej]

nawlej, in Dos/Windows end of line is CrLf, in Unix Lf.

Im aware. You are correct.....I basically said the same thing, except I was speaking in terms of programming, and how the converter handles such a thing. Thank you for your clarification though.....Sometimes I forget everyone is not fluent in programming concepts.

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[morse]--... ...--[/morse], Eric.

 

[comtec17]

faq60-3535

 

[wolves]

Thanks. got it fixed. And thanks for the link comtec17, that was great. Something to keep.

 

[ecg]

A simple way to remove ^M

Log into your unix machine and VI the specific file!

Then type:

:g/s/^m///

It will state that ( 'X' number of ^M have been removed )

Then save the file and you're done!

Hope this helps...